Improved tub for washing and other purposes



'UNITED STATESI PATENT GEETCE.

JOHN BANNER, or CANTON, onto.

IM'PRVED TUB FOPeWAS-HING AND OTHER. PURPQSES.

Speciiication forming part of Letters Patent No. 46,085., dated January 31, 1665.

To all whom it may concern.'

Be it known that I J CHN` BANNER, of Cantou, in the county of tark and State of Ohio,

have invented certain new .and useful Improvements in the Construction of 'Inbsfor Wash? ing and other Purposes; andl do hereby da elare the following,lr to be a full, clear, and eXac't description of Vthe same, reference being had tothe accompanying drawings, makin g-partof this specification, in Which-'- Figure l represents a' tub or vessel of my construction, upon a stand, with a'lainp for heating its contents, as, for instance, clothes that are to be boiled/or Wash-ed. Fig. 2 represents a vertical section through the same'. Fig. 3 represents a top plan ofthe bottom of the tub, both represented as broken away.

The objectv of my invention is to construct a portable tub for washing purposes that will possess also within itselfan arrangement for heating the wash-water, or for keeping it hot. To this end I make the cylindrical portion of the tub A of staves in the ordinary Way of `making tubs, casks, or other Wooden vessels;

ljutinstead of a Wooden bottom I make a castiron or .other metal bottom, B, which maybe lunited to the cylindrical portion, as common wood bottomsv are, or in any other watertight manner.V Under this metal-bottomed tub or vessel. I .propose tense a fire for heating. the Water therein or 'other' contents,

and for this .tire to use aVcoal-oii lamp, C, as being most convenient and cheap.' To' protect the Wooden portion A of the tub or vessel from the flameof the lamp or re, I cast or construct a flange, D, upon the under side 'ot' the bottom, which shall'act' as -a shield to kei p the blaze or fire from the wood. The uppir vor inside surface ofthe metal bottom may be grooved, corrugated, or rid ged, as shown at E, Fig. 3; or it may be plain 'and he used with or Without .the rubber G. A vessel thus oon-v structed, though designed for a wash-tub, may h'euseful-and valuable for many other household or domestic purposes, as it maybe coveredr as at F, and itscontents heated to any ordinary degree of heat; -or it' may be used as a common wash-tub; It' the bottom he of cast viron, and zincked or galvanized, it would not corrode, and be quite durable'.

Having thus fully described-'the construction and operation` of my invention, what I claim therein as new, and desire tosecure byv Letters Patent, is

In combination With a washing-tub cornvpesedlof staves of Woodv ametallic bottomconstructed and united thereto inthe manner substantially and for the purpose described.

,A JOHN BANNER. Witnesses: Y

a A. B. -SToUGH'rom HIVER. FENDRIGH. 

